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General

Target
helo.exe
Size 10.4MB
Sample260706-wv93asfs2k
SHA256 a280599b2821b86aa245035da6ce62ddc51e7e309a51a2cee7cacf3c7d82a379
MD5 ce42d012952e8b310e3843a0c4240e65
SHA1 66b3ad97dd57238d159103000a03e7c98d443432
SHA512 6d51d5131f4642cdc54350677f7f0ffd95f945239a3fbc5f5c3bd7de7a5a5f183f3b813b01f236db769abfa740df3d3c4306c65f8797c5231fa28085042aa28c
SSDEEP 196608:Q0sAXG3MDmfBTj6hZQMD6PelPelPelPelPev:9+3MD0BTj6Ec6GlGlGlGlGv
TLSH
T1BAB612037BEFB45EEA7BD7B044AD63255614FC370842815A75CD48960F9FA103EBC2AA
MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Score

5^/10

Malware Config

Signatures

Codesign digest Mismatch 1 IoCs

File was altered after it was signed.

resource
helo.exe

File Explorer

helo.exe

.exe 10.4MB

helo.exe

IMPHASH 0e06ed16c43ec8d6c421e4b5f9f54a07
SHA256 a280599b2821b86aa245035da6ce62ddc51e7e309a51a2cee7cacf3c7d82a379
MD5 ce42d012952e8b310e3843a0c4240e65
SHA1 66b3ad97dd57238d159103000a03e7c98d443432
SHA512 6d51d5131f4642cdc54350677f7f0ffd95f945239a3fbc5f5c3bd7de7a5a5f183f3b813b01f236db769abfa740df3d3c4306c65f8797c5231fa28085042aa28c
SSDEEP 196608:Q0sAXG3MDmfBTj6hZQMD6PelPelPelPelPev:9+3MD0BTj6Ec6GlGlGlGlGv
TLSH
T1BAB612037BEFB45EEA7BD7B044AD63255614FC370842815A75CD48960F9FA103EBC2AA
MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

windows:4 windows x86 arch:x86

Codesign digest Mismatch

File was altered after it was signed.

PE Signature issue

Digest

3f:cd:fb:e4:0c:0c:a2:ee:0e:42:ff:c6:ed:f4:89:29:96:9d:c0:f3:a7:12:4c:e8:2f:8e:9d:c0:0f:6b:e9:b5

Digest Algorithm

sha256

PE Digests Matches

Not matched

Trusted

Not trusted

Signing Certificate

CN=WhatsApp LLC,OU=WhatsApp Desktop,O=WhatsApp LLC,L=Menlo Park,ST=California,C=US

Chains

Jul 6, 2026

CN=WhatsApp LLC,OU=WhatsApp Desktop,O=WhatsApp LLC,L=Menlo Park,ST=California,C=US

Minor OS version

Major OS version

Entry point

5088

Magic Number

267

Subsystem

IMAGE_SUBSYSTEM_WINDOWS_GUI

DLL Characteristics

IMAGE_DLLCHARACTERISTICS_DYNAMIC_BASE IMAGE_DLLCHARACTERISTICS_NX_COMPAT

File Characteristics

IMAGE_FILE_EXECUTABLE_IMAGE IMAGE_FILE_LINE_NUMS_STRIPPED IMAGE_FILE_LOCAL_SYMS_STRIPPED IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE IMAGE_FILE_32BIT_MACHINE IMAGE_FILE_DEBUG_STRIPPED

PDB paths

kernel32

CreateEventA CreateSemaphoreA DeleteCriticalSection EnterCriticalSection GetHandleInformation GetProcessAffinityMask GetSystemTimeAsFileTime GetThreadContext GetThreadPriority InitializeCriticalSection IsDebuggerPresent IsProcessorFeaturePresent LeaveCriticalSection LoadLibraryW OpenProcess OutputDebugStringA RaiseException ReleaseSemaphore ResetEvent ResumeThread SetEvent SetProcessAffinityMask SetThreadContext SetThreadPriority SuspendThread TryEnterCriticalSection VirtualProtect VirtualQuery AddVectoredExceptionHandler CancelIo CloseHandle CompareStringOrdinal CopyFileExW CreateDirectoryW CreateEventW CreateFileMappingA CreateFileW CreateHardLinkW CreateMutexA CreatePipe CreateProcessW CreateSymbolicLinkW CreateThread CreateToolhelp32Snapshot CreateWaitableTimerExW DeleteFileW DeleteProcThreadAttributeList DeviceIoControl DuplicateHandle ExitProcess FindClose FindFirstFileExW FindNextFileW FlushFileBuffers FormatMessageW FreeEnvironmentStringsW FreeLibrary GetCommandLineW GetComputerNameExW GetComputerNameW GetConsoleMode GetConsoleOutputCP GetCurrentDirectoryW GetCurrentProcess GetCurrentProcessId GetCurrentThread GetCurrentThreadId GetEnvironmentStringsW GetEnvironmentVariableW GetExitCodeProcess GetFileAttributesW GetFileInformationByHandle GetFileInformationByHandleEx GetFileSizeEx GetFileType GetFinalPathNameByHandleW GetFullPathNameW GetLastError GetModuleFileNameW GetModuleHandleA GetModuleHandleW GetOverlappedResult GetProcAddress GetProcessHeap GetProcessId GetStdHandle GetSystemDirectoryW GetSystemInfo GetSystemTime GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime GetTempPathW GetTickCount GetUserDefaultLCID GetWindowsDirectoryW GlobalMemoryStatusEx HeapAlloc HeapFree HeapReAlloc InitOnceBeginInitialize InitOnceComplete InitializeProcThreadAttributeList LoadLibraryA LockFileEx MapViewOfFile Module32FirstW Module32NextW MoveFileExW MultiByteToWideChar QueryPerformanceCounter QueryPerformanceFrequency ReadConsoleW ReadFile ReadFileEx ReleaseMutex RemoveDirectoryW RtlCaptureContext SetCurrentDirectoryW SetEnvironmentVariableW SetFileAttributesW SetFileInformationByHandle SetFilePointerEx SetFileTime SetHandleInformation SetLastError SetThreadStackGuarantee SetUnhandledExceptionFilter SetWaitableTimer Sleep SleepEx SwitchToThread TerminateProcess TlsAlloc TlsFree TlsGetValue TlsSetValue UnlockFile UnmapViewOfFile UpdateProcThreadAttribute WaitForMultipleObjects WaitForSingleObject WaitForSingleObjectEx WideCharToMultiByte WriteConsoleW WriteFileEx lstrlenW

msvcrt

__getmainargs __initenv __p__commode __p__fmode __set_app_type __setusermatherr _amsg_exit _beginthreadex _cexit _commode _endthreadex _errno _fmode _fpreset _initterm _iob _onexit _setjmp3 _strdup _vsnprintf _write abort calloc exit fprintf free fwrite longjmp malloc memcpy memmove memset memcmp printf realloc signal strlen strncmp vfprintf

ntdll

NtCreateFile NtCreateNamedPipeFile NtOpenFile NtReadFile NtWriteFile RtlNtStatusToDosError

userenv

GetUserProfileDirectoryW

ws2_32

GetHostNameW WSACleanup WSADuplicateSocketW WSAGetLastError WSARecv WSASend WSASocketW WSAStartup accept bind closesocket connect freeaddrinfo getaddrinfo getpeername getsockname getsockopt ioctlsocket listen recv recvfrom select send sendto setsockopt shutdown

advapi32

GetUserNameW

shell32

SHGetFolderPathW

user32

GetForegroundWindow GetMessageTime GetSystemMetrics

api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0

WaitOnAddress WakeByAddressAll WakeByAddressSingle

bcryptprimitives

ProcessPrng

Name

.text

Size

685KB

Virtual Size

684KB

Characteristics

IMAGE_SCN_CNT_CODE IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA IMAGE_SCN_MEM_EXECUTE IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ

Name

.data

Size

2KB

Virtual Size

1KB

Characteristics

IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ IMAGE_SCN_MEM_WRITE

Name

.rdata

Size

4.6MB

Virtual Size

4.6MB

Characteristics

IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ

Name

.eh_fram

Size

95KB

Virtual Size

94KB

Characteristics

IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ

Name

.bss

Size

Virtual Size

548B

Characteristics

IMAGE_SCN_CNT_UNINITIALIZED_DATA IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ IMAGE_SCN_MEM_WRITE

Name

.idata

Size

7KB

Virtual Size

7KB

Characteristics

IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ IMAGE_SCN_MEM_WRITE

Name

.CRT

Size

512B

Virtual Size

56B

Characteristics

IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ IMAGE_SCN_MEM_WRITE

Name

.tls

Size

512B

Virtual Size

Characteristics

IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ IMAGE_SCN_MEM_WRITE

Name

.rsrc

Size

1KB

Virtual Size

1KB

Characteristics

IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ

Name

.reloc

Size

24KB

Virtual Size

23KB

Characteristics

IMAGE_SCN_CNT_INITIALIZED_DATA IMAGE_SCN_MEM_DISCARDABLE IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ

Sharing

General

Malware Config

Signatures

File Explorer

helo.exe

PE Signature issue

kernel32

msvcrt

ntdll

userenv

ws2_32

advapi32

shell32

user32

api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0

bcryptprimitives

generic